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[OPE-L] The Political Economy of Open Source

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by Manuel Castells.  
< http://www.my-opensource.org/lists/myoss/2005-02/msg00014.html >
(note the follow-up discussion on that list)
 
Also see  "The political economy of Open Source Software"  a  (2000)
Working Paper  by Steven Weber (41 pages):
< http://e-conomy.berkeley.edu/publications/wp/wp140.pdf >
 
 
*** Do others on the list agree with what Castells and/or Weber wrote
         about OS? ***
 
[For further discussion on Open Source, see "analysis" at:
< http://www.openflows.org >.  btw,  if anyone on the list wants more
info about Open Flows, please let me know off-list as a good anarchist
friend of mine works for them and I can virtually  introduce you to him.]
 
Another paper by Castells on a related topic -- Information Technologies
and Global Capitalism  < http://www.chet.org.za/itgc.html >  ]
 
In solidarity, Jerry
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